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Re:OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 per Hour to Ma... by pontilanda on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @11:49AM (#34429173)
The point of bringing jobs to Kenya is that they can pay less. If you don't see that as a benefit, why should I, a business, go to the trouble of working with a Kenyan company rather than just do it locally?

I could pay a Kenyan $17 an hour, or I could pay a Kansan instead and get US government benefits. The same applies at every payment level. Your logic fails the moment you realize that not every person/worker on earth is equal.

Insisting on this sort of articles just goes to show how sheltered these offended people are. I live in the third world and I know people who are thankful to Coca Cola for their "$2 wages."

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Re:OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 per Hour to Ma... by absrd on Thursday January 19, 2023 @12:31PM (#34443017)
Do you think then, that they deserve to be mentally scarred without any support and paid less than the minimum wage for a receptionist, on the basis that they are not "equal" to us?
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